INDUSTRY INSIGHT

How and Where the Advanced

Material Industry is Set to Grow
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 Table of contents

How and Where the Advanced Material

Industry is Set to Grow 3

The Growth of the Advanced Material Industry 4

Nanomaterials 6

Graphene 7

Advanced Materials Coatings 8

Overall Outlook 10

About the Advanced Materials Show 12

Contact Information 14

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 How and Where the Advanced Material
Industry is Set to Grow

The advanced materials industry is one of the

fastest-growing industries worldwide.

Back in 2013, the UK’s Government Office for Science suggested that the areas of
carbon-based nanomaterials, metamaterials, biomaterials and semiconductors have the
most potential going forward, so it is no surprise to see that many of the commercial
advances in the last few years have been in these areas.

Since its inception in 2019, The Advanced Materials Show has attracted the world’s leading
innovators and manufacturers related to these sub-industries and is now firmly established
as Europe’s largest gathering of advanced materials companies. The 2020 show (2nd & 3rd
December) is expected to showcase more of what the advanced material industry has to
offer.

2019 demographics:

166 1546 981 34

EXHIBITING COMPANIES INDIVIDUAL ATTENDEES COMPANIES COUNTRIES

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 The Growth of the Advanced Material Industry

Many high-tech industrial sectors, such as the automotive, aerospace, defence,

medical, electronics and energy industries, have relied on cutting-edge materials for
many years, and today is no different, with these industries already adopting many
advanced materials in commercial applications. But it’s not just the high-end
applications which have adopted advanced materials, with construction and the sports
industries also being early adopters.

Main sectors of the advanced materials industry:

Chemicals Aerospace Automotive Electronics Education Energy Defence

The advanced materials industry has been growing worldwide, and spearheaded in
some areas by companies and institutions within the UK. Specific market value figures
are almost never accurate because each market valuation body has their own metrics
to define growth and market value. However, you will find that regardless of the
specific value, they all show that the use of advanced materials has been on the
increase and is set to further increase in the coming years.

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For example, figures released by Research Nester anticipate that the advanced
materials industry will grow globally by around 600 million USD in the next few
years, and will be expected to have a market reach of over 1.9 billion by 2024 – and
this is a similar trend being proposed by many. So, there is significant potential for
advanced materials in new and existing markets, and we have only really just begun to
see how much added benefit they provide.

The UK has made substantial

commitments to innovation, and as a
result are in the top ten of economies for
R&D investment, topping $45 billion USD,
or 1.7% of GDP per year. The UK
government and businesses have put
significant emphasis on developing and
maintaining a highly skilled and innovative
workforce.These factors combined create
an environment where UK companies are
well placed to exploit advanced materials
to create fundamentally better products
at a pace faster than most other
competing economies.

Landon Mertz
CEO, Cerion Nanomaterials

There are several long-standing industries that have always been at the forefront of
materials research and have used the most advanced materials available at the time,
such as the composite and coating industries. Below, we look at where the
advancements are going to come in both established and new industries, and which
advanced materials are at the forefront for helping to propel industrial growth, both
in the UK and globally.

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 Nanomaterials

While advanced materials were in existence

before nanomaterials became commercialised,
the recent boom towards using advanced
materials has largely been due to commercial
production of different nanomaterials, being
able to utilise new nanofabrication technologies,
and being able to convert already-used bulk
materials into different nanoforms.

As a result, nanomaterials are becoming a

popular option as an additive in some industries
(e.g. composites) but can also be a stand-alone
material as well.

Many nanomaterials exhibit various electrical, optical and mechanical properties

themselves, but their small size means that they can also be incorporated into a
wide range of composites and formulations, which is why their growth has been so
vast. They are now used to create lighter sports equipment, lighter and stronger
composites in the aerospace, defence and automotive sectors, as well as provide
enhanced barrier properties in coatings for similar sectors.

Many nanomaterials are also being trialled throughout the medical industry, which has
led to the separate scientific field of nanomedicine emerging. Other nanomaterials
are being trialled for energy storage devices to improve usable lifetimes and
charging rates, some nanomaterials are being incorporated into construction
materials to improve their strength and fracture resistance, while others are being
used in textiles to clean up oil spills in marine environments.

While the UK has been one the front-running nations for nanomaterial development,
it is a global opportunity presented to many industries that use or are looking to use
advanced materials.

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 Graphene

When talking about nanomaterials and advanced materials, graphene is one of the
most well-known, and for good reason – its properties and ability to introduce
benefits to other mediums are highly desirable.

The UK is arguably the home of graphene ever since it was first isolated in
Manchester in 2004. Since then, the UK has developed infrastructure to help propel
graphene from an academic material to a commercially viable option. The UK, alongside
partners in the EU and beyond, have been at the forefront of these efforts for many
years and this has been showcased by the construction of the National Graphene
Institute (NGI) and the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) in Manchester.

Over previous years we have started to

see some major changes not only in
existing materials [e.g. carbon fibre],
but we are also seeing enhanced
performance from new composites
with additives, as well as new
materials where 2D materials have
unique and different properties to
that of traditional materials. I expect
to see an ‘increase in pace’ of these
new materials coming to the market
over the next 5 to 10 years.

James Baker
CEO, Graphene@Manchester

Graphene is one of the most, if not the most, rapidly growing industries within the
nanomaterial and advanced material sectors. While graphene has started to be
trialled in many products, it is still an industry in its infancy, but the next 5-10 years
could see exponential growth in the use of graphene and it could well become of the
most important advanced material industries due to the scope of where it can be used.

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Graphene’s properties are well-documented. It has
highly desirable physical, mechanical, optical and
electronic properties which make it useful for a wide
range of applications.

First efforts to commercialise graphene saw it used in sports equipment such as tennis
rackets and golf balls, but it is now starting to be trialled in various types of composites
used in the medical, construction and aerospace industries, in wearable and flexible
electronic components in batteries and other energy storage systems, as flexible
circuitry, in coatings to protect planes from lightning strikes and boats from corrosion,
and to decrease the weight of car parts.

But these are just a few examples of key developments, and the use of graphene is
likely set to exponentially grow into these sectors, among many others.

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 Advanced Material Coatings

As mentioned above, many nanomaterials (such as graphene) can be incorporated into

coatings to improve their properties and industries that they are usable in.

For many high-tech applications, such as the energy and electronics sectors, the
incorporation of advanced materials into the coatings has helped to provide more
effective environmental barriers, as well as helped to reduce the amount of heat
generated within devices (due to more advanced heat dissipation properties), which
in turn has helped to improve the usable lifetime of many energy storage and
electronic devices. This has been important in recent years as electronic devices are
getting ever more powerful (and are emitting more heat as a result).

However, it is not just the incorporation of nanomaterials that has helped to grow the
coatings sector. The coatings industry is a very old industry with many established
coating techniques, but the last decade or so has seen the commercial use of many
coating technologies. These technologies, such as atomic layer deposition (ALD),
chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and physical vapour deposition (PVD) have
provided lighter, thinner, more advanced (and more chemically complex), and more
beneficial coatings to higher tech applications. These types of advanced coatings are
not as widely used yet (mostly due to cost) but have the potential to be widely used
across the automotive, aerospace, defence electronics, energy, medical and
marine sectors in the coming years.

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 Overall Outlook

Landon Mertz, CEO of Cerion Nanomaterials, stated that in the last five years he had

“seen a dramatic increase in industrial R&D teams who are

adopting nanomaterials as an important part of their tool kit to
address product or system challenges that cannot be solved
using conventional materials”.

This is something which looks likely to increase in the coming years and will help
to not only boost the advanced material industry, but it will also help to support
many of the end-user industries which rely on advanced materials (old or new).

The current major challenges of the advanced material industry are mainly
centred around start-up and early-stage companies, as many companies at this
stage are known to fail.

However, one thing to note is that it is not a lack of innovation which has caused many
to fail, rather it is unrealistic timescales. Like many materials in the past, the current
crop of advanced materials take time to mature and come to market – this is especially
true for nanomaterials where extra safety measures often need to be taken, as well as
the time needed to scale-up complex fabrication processes.

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However, if companies entering the advanced material space can produce effective
roadmaps, effectively cost R&D operations, and set realistic timescales for product
development and entry to market, then many of them will be able to benefit from, and
contribute to, the growth that advanced materials are set to provide to the UK and
global economies in the coming years. It is certainly an industrial space that
everyone inside and outside of the industry should be keeping a close eye on.

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 About the Advanced Materials Show

Spread over two action-packed days, The Advanced Materials Show will offer an
unrivalled insight into current and future materials development, with experts from
all sides of the industry in attendance.

Free-to-attend exhibition and world-class conference dedicated to

high-performance materials technology. Register here.

Over 300+ exhibitors and 4,000 visitors, including project managers, design
engineers, buyers, materials scientists and senior executives.

Multi-track conference with tracks dedicated to Graphene, 2D Materials and

Nanomaterials; Surface Engineering & Advanced Coatings; Composites &
Polymers.

Co-located with Battery Cells and Systems Expo, Vehicle Electrification Expo
and Ceramics UK.

Modern materials innovation across industries including space/aerospace,

automotive, energy, renewables, medical, electronics, construction and defence.

Materials on display will include the latest in nanomaterials, composites,

polymers, ceramics, adhesives and sealants, coatings, foams, metals, textiles and
thermoplastics.

An advisory panel featuring leading names from organisations including 3M,

Cerion, Imperial College, Graphene@Manchester, Innovate UK
and Nanotechnology Industries Association.

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